Ruler · 1964 – present

Sharif Sheikh Ahmed

Born 1964, living; politician. President of Somalia (Somalia), 2009 – 2012.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: since 1964; living
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Somalia
Left it: ending not on record; nothing on record

President of Somalia

Somalia · the 11th of 16 dated reigns · 1960 – 2024

7 before

Abdiqasim Salad Hassan2000 – 2004

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed2004 – 2008

Aden Madobe2008 – 2009

Sharif Sheikh Ahmed2009 – 2012

Mohamed Osman Jawari2012

Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle2012

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud2012 – 2017

2 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 2009 – 2012 · 3 years · came to it aged 45

Came to it: elected
Left it: ending not on recordnothing on record: no death date to read the end against

Following Ethiopia's troop withdrawal in January 2009, he was elected President of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

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